Its 2am, I’m sitting in front of my laptop listening to some ol’ school DC Talk, and I have run out of ways to procrastinate from writing my first blog, so here goes:
I got to head along to another committee meeting Friday morning at Sammy Broadfoot’s, and despite our group being depleted due to illness, prac and a couple of member’s bizarre desire to travel interstate to chase a piece of flying plastic, we had a great time. I learnt a number of things that morning; without Roger there, committee runs much quicker, Matthew Sheridan has skipped his cleaning duties 2 weeks in a row and I realised that we should so bring back ‘fire and brimstone’ preaching.
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After going through the usual formalities, like Emma Lovegrove’s reasoning behind running like a chicken out of the Brennan room during Wednesday’s epic flash mob, we got to read through one of Jonathan Edward’s sermons – Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Edwards was one of the main preachers involved in the First Great Awaking (1730’s and 1740’s) and is widely acknowledged as America’s most important and original philosophical theologian. His sermon, which is primarily based on one verse of scripture: Their foot shall slide in due time. Deuteronomy 32:35 is 7,184 words long, and an incredibly eye-opening text, which is why I’ve decided to share it with you today.
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Edward’s sermon has 11 ‘considerations’, some being: God may cast wicked men into hell at any given moment, All that wicked men may do to save themselves from Hell’s pains afford them nothing if they continue to reject Christ and God has never promised to save us from Hell, except for those contained in Christ through the covenant of Grace.
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But that’s enough of my essay for now, if you’re interested, I’d encourage you to have a read through his sermon, it’s both eye opening and applicable: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/sermons.sinners.html
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Peace out,
Nathan Gallagher
photo credit: Markus Rödder